All Justice Info articles since 2015
All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.
ICC: Last chance to de-quarantine justice for Mali
22 October 2020
by Thijs Bouwknegt
In the trial of Al Hassan, a former member of the Islamic police in Mali, evidence before the International Criminal Court has been vastly hidden from the public. Even Western expert witnesses are now granted anonymity and closed [...]
22 October 2020
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22 October 2020
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22 October 2020
by Boubacar Sidiki Haidara
Hearings in the "Al Hassan" trial resumed at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on October 13. While the ICC and some NGOs attach particular importance to this trial, the reaction of local populations is much more [...]
20 October 2020
by Franck Petit
Eric Emeraux: "Terrorism and hate crimes have made international crimes part of our daily lives"
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Éric Émeraux Former head of the French Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity For three years, Colonel Eric Emeraux headed France’s Office to Fight Crimes against Humanity, [...]
19 October 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: "The President shortened the lives of these people, they were not supposed to die"
On October 12, public hearings resumed before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission after a two-month break due to the Covid-19 pandemic. More doctors and lab technicians have come to testify on the fanciful – [...]
16 October 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombians pressure FARC into admitting child soldiers
Last month, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace – known as JEP – has decided to allow public preliminary hearings. This has helped former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to be more forthcoming about the [...]
15 October 2020
by Joe Binguimatchi and Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African Republic: Special Court detentions shrouded in secrecy
This is an unprecedented situation in international justice. Officially, about fifteen suspects are in pre-trial detention at the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic. But this mixed court with national and inter [...]
13 October 2020
by Nasia Hadjigeorgiou
The missing truth in Cyprus
For up to 60 years, Greek and Turkish Cypriot families of persons who disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s have waited for the truth to be established. Created in 1981 but operational only since 2006, the Committee on Missing person [...]
12 October 2020
by Julia Emtseva
Philanthrocapitalism, transitional justice and the need for accountability
Early October, Mellon Foundation, the largest humanities philanthropy in the United States, announced its biggest initiative ever: to spend 250 million dollars on monuments. The goal of this memorialization program is to allow the [...]
9 October 2020
by Jean-Pierre Massias
Social conflicts: A new field for transitional justice?
In France, miners unfairly sacked 70 years ago are being rehabilitated and their descendants compensated. Across the Channel, the Scottish government is considering public pardons for miners convicted during the big strikes of the [...]
8 October 2020
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Commission on Belgium’s colonial past: “It’s important, but will it succeed?”
MPs worried about the magnitude of their task, experts challenged by some associations but apparently united and enthusiastic: they were all there for the first public session of the Special Commission on Belgium’s colonial past o [...]
6 October 2020
by Cira Palli-Aspero
Historical Clarification Commissions: Revisiting the Colombian experience
Societies emerging from conflict are often left rooted in a complex ground of competing narratives, transforming the past into a space of contestation. The work of the Historical Memory Group, operative from 2007 to 2011 in Colomb [...]
6 October 2020
by Thierry Ogier
In Brazil, it’s reparation time for Volkswagen
During the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985), Volkswagen denounced several trade unionists and communist militants who were then arrested and tortured by security agents. Following an out-of-court agreement between victi [...]
5 October 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Kosovo’s court wake-up call
The “zombie court” of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), a Hague-based technically national but truly international tribunal with nothing much to show five years after its creation, has resuscitated last week with three arrests [...]
5 October 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisian transitional justice in danger, warns civil society
The new government’s contested appointments and unclear positions on transitional justice have put this process at risk again, say civil society and victims who have been demonstrating in front of the executive office since the be [...]
2 October 2020
by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
Sudan: After peace, transitional justice?
Darfur-Peace-Agreement_justice-responsibility-reconciliation_@JusticeInfoTélécharger There is to be a signing ceremony on October 3 in the South Sudanese capital Juba of a peace deal aimed at ending nearly two decades of conflict [...]
1 October 2020
by Janet H. Anderson
Kabuga’s transfer to the Mechanism: Is it the right thing to do?
The surprise arrest in May of an old Rwandan man, soon after the end of lockdown in a chic Paris suburb, is having knock-on consequences. High-profile fugitive Félicien Kabuga has changed overnight the prospects of the “Mechanism” [...]
1 October 2020
by André Guichaoua
Rwanda: what’s at stake in the Kabuga trial
What are the consequences of the arrest last May in France of Félicien Kabuga, considered to be one of the main perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide? French sociologist André Guichaoua, a former expert witness for the prosecu [...]